Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 7,281 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) (1941- )
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(1974) Congresswoman Barbara Jordan’s Statement: The Richard Nixon Impeachment Hearings
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William D. Clarke, Sr. (1941-)
Arkansas counties
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James W. Mason (1841–1874)

Explore Global African History

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Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)
Bangui City Center
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Bangui, Central African Republic (1889- )
Duse Mohamad Ali
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Duse Mohamad Ali (1866-1945)
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Alfonso I [King] (?-1543)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932
Kansas Runaway
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“Blazing a Path to Freedom: African Americans and Their White Allies in Bleeding Kansas”
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“Going South: William Fontaine’s Trip to Virginia, 1948”
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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